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quinoid

quinoid adjective: having a structure based upon a quinone.

Adjective

quinoid (comparative more quinoid, superlative most quinoid)

  1. Having a structure based upon a quinone.

Noun

quinoid (plural quinoids)

  1. Any substance whose structure is based upon a quinone.

Forms of quinoid

Adjective
comparativemore quinoid
superlativemost quinoid
Noun
pluralquinoids

Origin of quinoid

From quinone + -oid.

Words formed from quinoid

Questions about quinoid

What does quinoid mean?
Quinoid means having a structure based upon a quinone.
What part of speech is quinoid?
Quinoid can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near quinoid in the dictionary

  1. quinogen
  2. quinohaemoprotein
  3. quinohaemoproteins
  4. quinohemoprotein
  5. quinohemoproteins
  6. quinoid
  7. quinoidal
  8. quinoidation
  9. quinoidine
  10. quinoidines
  11. quinoidization

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